llvm dev - Apr 2011 - [LLVMdev] Has the Microchip PIC16 experimental backend been dropped from v2.9?

There is a ~/llvm-2.8/lib/Target/PIC16/ backend in llvm-2.8.  It doesn't
appear to be present in llvm-2.9.

Has that backend been dropped?

Graham

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Graham Reitz <grahamreitz at me.com>
wrote:
> There is a ~/llvm-2.8/lib/Target/PIC16/ backend in llvm-2.8.  It
doesn't appear to be present in llvm-2.9.
>
> Has that backend been dropped?
Yes; commit message for r116190:
"Per discussion with Sanjiv, remove the PIC16 target from mainline. 
When/if
it comes back, it will be largely a rewrite, so keeping the old codebase
in tree isn't helping anyone."

-Eli

> Has that backend been dropped?
Yes

-- 
With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University

Thank you.  I hope that it does come back.   

On Apr 9, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Eli Friedman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Graham Reitz <grahamreitz at me.com>
wrote:
>> There is a ~/llvm-2.8/lib/Target/PIC16/ backend in llvm-2.8.  It
doesn't appear to be present in llvm-2.9.
>> 
>> Has that backend been dropped?
> 
> Yes; commit message for r116190:
> "Per discussion with Sanjiv, remove the PIC16 target from mainline. 
When/if
> it comes back, it will be largely a rewrite, so keeping the old codebase
> in tree isn't helping anyone."
> 
> -Eli